http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/03/27Mar20-Nebraska-Mealworm-Farm-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)I was recently asked to eat an insect as part of these broadcasts.  I was probably like most people and…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/03/26Mar20-Nebraska-Mealworm-Farm-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Cheryl Powers may just have the more livestock on her operation than any other livestock owner in the state of…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2020/03/25Mar20-Nebraska-Mealworm-Farm-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Some people don’t like bugs.  They might imagine they can creep and crawl and scare you when you least expect…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/09/04Oct19-Museum-of-Fur-Trade-5.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Being attacked by a grizzly bear was bad in itself.  Now imagine your friends left you for dead and you…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/09/03Oct19-Museum-of-Fur-Trade-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)If you know Hugh Glass, then you most likely know him for his run in with a Grizzly Bear.  There…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/09/02Oct19-Museum-of-Fur-Trade-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When you did business on the high plains in the 1800s, transactions often took place in trade items.  That was…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/09/01Oct19-Museum-of-Fur-Trade-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Have you heard of Lewis and Clark or Alexander McKenzie?  Chances are you have heard of one but not the…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/09/30Sep19-Museum-of-Fur-Trade-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Today we say hello to our listeners on KSCR in Chadron, NE.  They know of a long time museum that…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/09/23Sep19-Ashfall-Fossil-Beds-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)If you were going to a rhino barn, you’d of course expect to see rhinos, perhaps at a zoo.  This…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/09/20Sep19-Ashfall-Fossil-Beds-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)In sharing these stories with you for over two decades I’ve seen a lot of interesting places, but I recently…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/09/19Sep19-Ashfall-Fossil-Beds-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)When you think volcanoes spewing clouds of hot ash, you probably do not think of the state of Nebraska.  But…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/08/19Aug19-KKOW-Radio.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Sometimes a station’s call letters can tell you a lot about the city or area from which it broadcasts.  Today…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/04/10Apr19-Bill-Shuck-B-17-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)By the end of WW II, Bill Shuck was in  POW camp with 9000 other English and American airman.  This…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/04/09Apr19-Bill-Shuck-B-17-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Bill Shuck’s B17 bomber had been struck by flack…and now he and the crew had to bail out of the…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/04/08Apr19-Bill-Shuck-B-17-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Today we say hello to listeners on two new affiliates, KBRF in Fergus Falls, MN and KIMn Gilette, WY.  Today’s…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/02/05Feb19-Jason-Brown-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)Jason grew up singing on the farm and in church each Sunday.  It led him to make it a career. …

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2019/02/04Feb19-Sequoyah-2019.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:02 — 2.1MB)His work helped teach an entire nation to read and write within a matter of just a few years.  In…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/06/12Jun18-Kool-Aid-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Marketing and advertising are keys to getting a product known and bought by consumers.  Perhaps no one did it better…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/06/11Jun18-Kool-Aid-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It was a part of some meals served to U.S. troops during World War II.  However, you probably don’t associate…

http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2018/06/08Jun18-Kool-Aid-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Today we say hello to our listeners on KHAS in Hastings, Nebraska.  Residents have probably heard of a man named…